A collection of posters drawn from four different collections held at LSE archives. The ‘Political and Tariff Reform Posters’ series includes a selection of political posters produced by various British political parties and the Tariff Reform League from 1892 – 1910. The ‘London County Council Election 1907’ series includes a selection of campaigning posters and papers produced for that election. The ‘British Labour Delegation to Russia’ series includes propaganda posters, papers, gazettes and newspaper articles collected by the Delegation during their visit to Soviet Russia in 1920. The ‘Russia Childcare Posters’ series includes posters produced by the Soviet Ministry of Health (Ministerstvo zdravookhraneniya) from 1930 – 1931, instructing parents on how to take care of their children’s health.
Full text lithograph in red ink on white paper. Campaign poster for the 1892 General Election for George Allsopp, Conservative and Unionist candidate for the City of Worcester, 1885-1906. Artist: unknown Printer: C. H. Birbeck and Co Publisher: C. H. Birbeck and Co Place of Publication: Worcester Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Cartoon satirizing the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists, featuring Campbell-Bannerman as a nervous bride in a wedding dress, and John Redmond as her illegitimate son. Produced for the Conservative and Unionist parties. Artist: E Huskinson Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co Publisher: Conservative Central Office Place of Publication: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Full colour lithograph showing ? standing in a garden outside the Radical Conservatory with a watering can, surrounded by healthy potted plants representing Home Rule Imperial Disunion, and Godless Education, and stunted weeds representing Social Reform, Strong Navy and Reduced Taxation. Artist: George Belcher Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
John Bull is seen standing on an outline map of the British Isles (he stands squarely between London and the Midlands), facing a Tory peer-type who is dressed in hunting clothes, ermine-trimmed robes, and a monocle, and carrying a shotgun. The peer has one foot in Northern Ireland, and one in Scotland. John Bull is taking off his jacket, ready for a fight. The caption under the picture reads Vote Liberal and back up John Bull. Artist: Unknown Printer: Avenue Press Ltd Publisher: The Daily News Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Copy of cartoon from the Westminster Gazette? showing Asquith as John Bull giving cheap sugar and an old age pension to a child and an elderly couple, while Chaplin and Austen Chamberlain, dressed as doctors, look on. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Liberal Publication Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Small poster showing a fisherman (unidentified politician) baiting his hook with worms called Full Employment and Higher Wages, with his fishing basket, Protection, beside him. In the river, a fish with a man's head (another politician?) looks balefully up at him. Produced by the Liberals. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Liberal Publication Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Black and red ink full text poster on white paper, regarding the popular image of the Licensing Bill. Artist: Unknown Printer: Waterlow and Sons Ltd Publisher: Liberal Publications Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
A Tory wearing a monocle, spats, and a top hat with Tariff Reform written on it, is shown rolling a huge barrel called taxation over an angry-looking man of the Working Classes. Quotes from Tories about the desirability of broadening the basis of taxation appear in a cartouche to the left, and in the caption below the illustration. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Waterlow and Sons Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Judge John Bull finds the Tory Government guilty of numerous offences relating to Britain's conduct in the Boer War, described in a panel in the centre of the image. The offending politicians are standing in the dock. John Bull's comments appear in text below him; the word Guilty in large upper case at the top. A thick red line borders the poster. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Half page of text with bar chart comparing levels of taxation under Tory and Liberal governments, 1865-1885. Lithograph in black ink with red and blue bar chart, produced for the Liberal Central Association, 41 - 42 Parliament Street, Westminster, London. Artist: Unknown Printer: National Press Agency Ltd Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Lithograph, red and black in on white paper. A foaming tankard engraved with various slogans, with an unidentified politician's face in the foam, above a quote from a meeting held in the City of London to protest against the Licensing Bill, produced for the Liberal Party. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Liberal Publication Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
